Motorhome internal wooden floor repair

barryd

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I managed to drop a heavy laptop from a fair height on the floor last night fighting with a load of bloody wires. :D

Its left a ding in the floor which was perfect. I seem to remember when we dented tables etc over they years with stuff falling out of lockers you could get some wood filler stuff to match it although I never tried it.

Its in a Swift Esprit 496. Can it be repaired or Bazza "bodged" or is it just best left as a battle scar? Im not that bothered about it but as I did it ill constantly get nagged about it for the next decade every time she cleans the feckin floor which is about twice a day.

 
runnach said:
Whats the odds this thread reaching 100 pages? :whistle:
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There are thousands of different colours of wood filler out there Terry, I have no doubt we will be introduced to them all. I mean look at the mark it’s left, why bother, but it’s Barry and those Rockstar types have a weird way of thinking. It may be interfering with Barry’s creative thinking every time he looks at it. Why not write a song about the mark Barry, that could be a better solution :)
 
Fisherman said:
There are thousands of different colours of wood filler out there Terry, I have no doubt we will be introduced to them all. I mean look at the mark it’s left, why bother, but it’s Barry and those Rockstar types have a weird way of thinking. It may be interfering with Barry’s creative thinking every time he looks at it. Why not write a song about the mark Barry, that could be a better solution :)
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I kind of like it Bill. It would have been better if I had knackered it pissed dropping my guitar while trying to play the solo to Freebird badly. Dropping the laptop while trying to watch an episode of Ted Lasso will never quite have the same fond memory when I look at it. However as I did it, ill never hear the end of it. Thats how it works. The big gamble is believing the before and after pictures on that Amazon wood filler ad. I might make it ten times worse. I could however get a pro to fix and just pretend I sorted it. That sounds like the best plan.
 
Wooie1958 said:
Delve into the secret wedge you have hidden away and get it repaired properly.
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Who told you that? Everyone knows I am a travelling Vagabond. I get away with hanging around the Yacht club at Salcombe in my holed deck shoes, torn jeans and tatty Musto jacket from the last century because I tell people I just skippered the tatty old Hunter 17 in the Harbour from the Solomon Islands.
 
1) Go to La Vegas

2) Remove your star from "the Walk of Fame" (I know you've got one because I took a photo the last time I was over
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3) Glue it over the hole.
 
As it is laminate you'll be lucky to get an invisible repair. One way would to carefully knife out the veneer, fill underneath and stick the veneer back on, even then the knife cut will show as it will be across the grain. If it was mine, I'd just get a solvent based wood dye of the right colour, start lighter you can always go darker, and just deal with the edges of the dinge to make it less obvious.
 
Perhaps a little lateral thinking? Luthiers repair similar damage to acoustic guitars all the time and the repair is almost imperceptible. IIRC, it involves carefully chiselling away the damaged veneer and gluing in a replacement. It helps if the join between old and new follows the grain. Searching the 'net might give a better idea...
[or you could claim the van's a musical instrument and ask a luthier to do it for you ;)]
 
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